those wonderful "occasions" where one FOREIGN RESORTS. FOREIGN can obtain for absolutely nothing the [ " RESORTS. most charming little keepsake* and re¬ ¦ A membrances, jabots, skirts and silk stock¬ CITYOFDUSSELDORF DUSSELDORF. GERMANY. | DUSSELDORF. GERMANY. INWONDERFULPARIS ings, which at first seem to hide them¬ selves away, making just part of the heterogeneous whole. The French system of arranging the stock, and, in fact, the ALLURINGTO of the seems VISITORS Those Who Can whole management shops, Fortunate very strange and very complicated to the practical mind of the American, and it Spend the Spring There. takes considerably time before one can become accustomed to being accompanied Palaces Royal in to the desk by the polite clerk, who him¬ Appearance, self does up the purchase, waits while you receive your change, then hurries Modern Streets, Vast PARADISE OF THE SHOPPER back to a fuming customer. But all is a question of habit, and, once thoroughly accustomed to the ways, all goes merry Squares, Elegant Hotels. as a marriage bell, and in the end one is Some of the More Important Hotels almost convinced that this is a better and Restaurants. method than our own, because subject to Americans who go to the fatherland so much more edifying discussions. should not fail to visit the metropolis of The Specialty Shops. the lower Rhine and make it their head¬ quarters, for it is one of the most enter¬ DAZZLING WORK OF ARTISANS As a rule the three things which Amer¬ taining and interesting: cities of recent icans most wish to purchase- and for date on the continent. which Paris is so justly famous are the The rise of Dusseldorf is hand-embroidered as astonishing '.Specialty Shops" for Which One handmade, lingerie, as its beauty and elegance. Founded in the wonderful flowers in velvets, silks, the middle Must Seek-.Novelties on ages, it was, at the time when satins, the exquisite enamels, trinkets and Napoleon the Great visited the Jewelry, both real and Imitation, and it with his DUSSELDORF army, the sleepy capital of the Boulevards. it is for these that one should Grand things Duchy of Berg, and it on know some of the little kept sleeping specialty shops after the (Napoleonic wars. t before mentioned. Soon after the Franco-German war the 12 Hours Fortunate, indeed, Is she whose first The shops for lingerie may be counted industrial From London on Route Visit to Paris takes in the delicious enterprise of the Germans de¬ tH..PIr»ct to Eteriin, place by the hundreds on all the main thor¬ veloped the great coal and iron distrk-t Dresden and Central months of April, May and June, when, of Rhenania. Cities like Europe. oughfares, their show windows presenting mund Essen, Dort¬ '¦dBMr,ai responding to their magic touch, the most tempting displays, but many of the and Bochum rose to prominence "ith°Lh?Ht«voai tSSm^SSSEL*1"a biossoms forth in its loveli¬ better and more worth-while ones are up and industrial fame, and situ¬ city greatest ated at the of Dusseldorf, Situated on both baaka of the Rhlae. ness, with its broad avenues alive with several flights of stairs, occupying large gate this rich district, re¬ combines all the of seen solved at last to attract its own DUSSELDORF comforta of a modera suites rooms, and are not to be share. hosts of gayly dressed people; its parks, The so w,,h

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